The OT1 font encoding is fine for typesetting in English, but has
problems when typesetting other languages. The T1 encoding solves
some of these problems, by providing extra characters (such as `eth'
and `thorn'), and it allows words containing accented letters to be
hyphenated (as long as you have a package like babel which allows
for non-American hyphenation).

This section describes the commands you can use if you have the T1
fonts. To use them, you need to get the `ec fonts', or the
T1-encoded PostScript fonts, as used by psnfss. All these fonts are
available by anonymous ftp in the Comprehensive TeX Archive, and
are also available on the CD-ROMs 4all TeX and
TeX Live (both available from the TeX Users Group).

You can then select the T1 fonts by saying:

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

This will allow you to use the commands in this section.

Note: Since this document must be processable on any site
running an up-to-date LaTeX, it does not contain any characters
that are present only in T1-encoded fonts. This means that this
document cannot show you what these glyphs look like! If you want
to see them then run LaTeX on the document fontsmpl and
respond `cmr' when it prompts you for a family name.